Lyrics

All creation bears the molecular memory of a terrible Explosion of electricity, energy, matter and motion. A violent eruption of white light white heat.

Do you really believe that before us, Nothing existed here? No one? That we are totally alone here? That we are unique, dreadfully unique?

You think more of what has been than of what will be But no one has lived in the past, And no one will live in the future

The present is the form of all life The present is terrifying Because it is irreversible Because it has a will of iron The past represents its future, It advances in a straight line, Yet it ends by coming full circle

Time the endless circle One long slow deep breath that goes on forever One long slow deep breath that stinks of sulfer

2. AMBER WAVES OF GRAY

I slept for ages And you grew up Dreams kept me lost In the skies above

All that you've done Your twilight's last gleam While my meadows rot Amber waves of gray

For millennia The kingdom peigned They held me so close As mother/father I am

All that you've done Your twilight's last gleam While my meadows rot Amber waves of gray

By dawn's lurid light I can clearly see The destruction you've reaped, While I slept How far will it go, will your hearts know?

Destroyers of all, so gallantly seeking The perilous fight, the gloom in your souls Glory reflected, shines in your greed
Destroyers of all, I am awake.

3. TEMPEST

Clouds of smog In the marrow So dearly held The wind will swallow The fossil air Corrodes and binds Tempestuous breath The wind will swallow

Across the skies Rusted rain falls So proudly hailed The tempest of man

From southern seas To the polar ice Spreads disease
The water will rise The poisoned sea
Corrodes and binds Tempestuous hands
The water will rise

Across the seas Crude waves capture So proudly hailed The tempest of man Across the land Chrome soil infects So proudly hailed The tempest of man

From the highest peaks To the lowest valleys Your motherlands cry
In the ground you'll lie
Infected soil Corrodes and binds Impetuous hearts In the ground you'll lie

4. THE LIGHT IN THEIR EYES

(Instrumental)

5. TROUBLE IS NEAR

And sorrow sinks into my Breaking heart of coal Disaster approaches as Men lead us to the grave

And that fire In their eyes Waves of light Burn so bright

My shell is scorched and scarred Destiny manifests Slash and burn, trudge and burrow
Men turn us into dust

The sixth extinction hollows me All those who've passed The kingdom is dying A future of death

Destruction embraces me I am sick Stricken with rage and sadness The future must change I have to bring them home
The strata of their birth Disaster approaches and Men will march to the grave

Everything has been said provided words do not change Their meanings. Is it not obvious that someone, who customarily Lives in a state of suffering, requires a different sort Of religion? From a person habitually living in a state of well-being? The acts of men, carried over from past centuries Will gradually destroy them.

Man as pariah, piranha, a parasite An all-consuming ravenous beast Who devours every other creature, Wreaking havoc upon a female planet Who bears the scars of his insatiable hunger Her body pitted by deep wounds gauged into her flesh As he leeches her natural elements To power his infernal machines.

Machines which spew black bile Poisoning everything As man gluts on the Earths' sacred fluids and precious Minerals Until Nature herself stages a hostile insurrection Against mans' gluttony and greed.

I felt that my existence here Was becoming a distorted, twilight memory

7. MIDNIGHT

Deep inside your flesh and bone Run rivers of war Plagues divide and conquer A new day is born

And when the famine comes over you And when the sickness comes over you And when the end comes over you You'll see there's no place like home

8. ACROSS THE WILDERNESS

Come home Catalyze Cave in Shed your grace, and regress Worry no more And while you rot We suffocate, as your bane respires

New dawn, a dying land Splintered atoms surround The red glare swallows us

Venom illuminates Across the wilderness And sees beyond the years Undimmed by human tears

New dawn, a dying land Splintered atoms surround The red glare swallows us

And to the kingdom I am here for you Step under my wings A thousand years of pain Will dissolve the poison And set you free

New dawn, a dying land Splintered atoms surround The red glare swallows us

9. TIME OUR SAVIOUR (LAW OF NATURE PT. 3)

We come spinning out of nothingness Scattering stars

All creation bears the molecular memory of a terrible Explosion of electricity, energy, matter and motion.
A violent eruption of white light white heat.

Chaos is the law of nature.

Do you really believe that before us, Nothing existed here? No one? That we are totally alone here? That we are unique, dreadfully unique?

You think more of what has been than of what will be But no one has lived in the past, And no one will live in the future

The present is the form of all life The present is terrifying Because it is irreversible Because it has a will of iron The past represents its future, It advances in a straight line, Yet it ends by coming full circle

Time the endless circle One long slow deep breath that goes on forever One long slow deep breath that stinks of sulfer

Everything has been said provided words do not change Their meanings, And meanings their words. Is it not obvious that someone, Who customarily Lives in a state of suffering, requires a different sort Of religion? From a person habitually living in a state of well-being? The acts of men, carried over from past centuries Will gradually destroy them, logically.

Man as pariah, piranha, a parasite An all-consuming ravenous beast Who devours every other creature, Wreaking havoc upon a female planet Who bears the scars of his insatiable hunger Her body pitted by deep wounds gauged into her flesh As he leeches her natural elements To power his infernal machines.

Machines which spew black bile Poisoning everything As man gluts on the Earths' sacred fluids and precious Minerals Until Nature herself stages a hostile insurrection Against mans' gluttony and greed.

I felt that my existence here Was becoming a distorted, twilight memory Of an awesome destiny

Time is the substance of which I am made Time is a river which carries me along.

We come spinning out of nothingness Scattering stars.

10. OMEGA

Fade Into nothing Cities decay The grief And sickness Is buried Sink into the trees The age of ruin is over and we revel Symmetry returns From sea to shining sea

Nightmares drift back Down that river of time To the dawn of man And I wonder what went wrong

Their souls gleamed / hearts of gold Their hands crushed / souls of coal That spark of light In their eyes was destruction

Sky of fire Warms our new dawn And the kingdom sways Our soverfign world Man is all but forgotten

And we live Together as one Until that bright star fades
From orange to red to white And we return home To the stardust

Dreams drift ahead Up that river of time To the end of all And I wonder what where we'll go

Our lights dim / bodies to dust Mass collides / event horizon That spark of light In the end is destruction

Way down I remember the way it is always been Way down I remember my place in the stars was black
Way down I remember how it all began Way down I remember that lone singular black mass